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DAVIDSON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5400515 · 1 · FOURMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1885-10-18 — 8th most senior of the 724 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: WILSON DITCH PUMP (1885-06-25). Immediately behind: TROWEL DITCH (1886-04-16).
Decreed rights (2)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13075.0 | 1885-10-18 | 1894-09-22 | 2.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 7 |
| 37433.17684 | 1898-06-01 | 1964-06-23 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 630 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 135 AF — 21% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,121 | 10th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 155 | 8.0 |
| 2011 | 1,029 | 9th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 157 | 6.0 |
| 2012 | 488 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 134 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 1,433 | 14th lowest of 15 · 228% of median | 148 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 1,388 | 13th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 170 | 14.1 |
| 2015 | 579 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 203 | 7.3 |
| 2016 | 80 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 97 | 0.6 |
| 2017 | 1,128 | 11th lowest of 15 · 179% of median | 121 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 302 | 5th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 94 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 1,258 | 12th lowest of 15 · 200% of median | 182 | 5.2 |
| 2020 | 2,011 | 15th lowest of 15 · 319% of median | 154 | 13.6 |
| 2021 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 15 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 630 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 144 | 2.3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 135 | 4th lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 49 | 2.0 |
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